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Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Wishes Won’t
Bring Riches
The Mental Dynamite Series

In this lost classic, the pioneering motivational coach teaches how to make the crucial leap from faith to action in bringing your dreams to life.

Believe in yourself…Have faith. We often hear these expressions. But faith is not enough. We need Applied Faith. In three hard-hitting chapters, motivational master Napoleon Hill teaches you how to transform belief into action, and faith into real-life plans.

Application. Enthusiasm. Action. These are the three keys required to do more than just “believe in yourself” – but to actually BE the person you want to be.

Wishes Won’t Bring Riches provides you with the missing link necessary to go from visualizing your dreams to living them.

“Any business whose management has the foresight to adopt a policy which consolidates management, employees and the public it serves in a spirit of team work, provides itself with an insurance policy against failure.” ~Napoleon Hill

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Dear Readers,

At the end of every school year, there is usually a graduation or commencement ceremony. For some, this special event signifies the end of an era. However, I tend to believe that any graduation is simply a new beginning.

At one time, a high school diploma was all that was needed to find a good career. Times quickly change and now it is important to have a college degree in order to find a good job. A survey that was conducted a few years ago showed that college graduates earn about 75% more than a high school graduate does.

On the other hand, I would like to point out that education does not always come from an academic institution. Many times, some of the world’s most successful individuals have been high school dropouts. In spite of this, these individuals continued learning on their own by personal reading and other sources.

I want you to realize that education is a lifelong process and is the bridge that takes us from where we are to where we want to go. Age should not deter you from continuing your education, nor should you feel limited because of your lack of education. I feel that we should all practice the philosophy of constantly learning in order to grow. Otherwise, we grow stagnant like swamp water. Remember, when you invest in education, you are really making an investment in yourself.

I wish you the best,
Don Green
Executive Director Napoleon Hill Foundation

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Smart vs. Intelligent
by Jim Stovall

In our society, we have been sold a false premise for generations. This premise would tell us that the more we know, the more we earn, the more we’re successful, and the happier we become. This is simply not true.

It has been said, “It’s not how smart you are, but how you are smart.” The world is full of people who might become Trivial Pursuit champions but simply don’t know how to apply any knowledge in a form that brings them the results they seek. As a person who reads a book every day thanks to books on tape and a high-speed tape player, I would be the first to say that education and learning are vital, but they are only vital when they can be applied to real-world situations.

I have a good friend who is a surgeon. He makes a tremendous income from practicing his profession. I remember him describing an operation to me. He said, “You simply make a cut and remove the damaged tissue.” I told him I was shocked that he made thousands of dollars for making a simple incision. He responded, “For making the cut, I charge about $10. For knowing where to make the cut, I have become a millionaire.”

In business and in life, it is often more important to understand the right question than to immediately have the answer. Now that we live in a world of high-speed Internet access, knowledge rests at our fingertips. But knowing where to get the knowledge and how best to apply it to a real-world problem or opportunity poses the same challenge it did to people who lived thousands of years ago.

In my career, I have sat for a number of tests to obtain professional licenses. Most of these tests were in the financial arena. Unfortunately, in order to become a broker, financial planner, or investment banker, you have to spend months learning how to master intricate financial calculations. It is sad that once you have passed your test, this knowledge is never used again because these intricate financial calculations and many others are routinely done instantaneously at the touch of a computer key.

Someone could demonstrate amazing intelligence and unbelievable recall if they could memorize and recite a phone book. As incredible as this would be, it would turn out to be little more than a gimmick as all of the information in the phone book is readily available to anyone via computer, telephone, or by simply looking through their own phone book.

When you meet people who are successful or have achieved the things in life you want to achieve, get in the habit of asking them what knowledge they most often apply that brings them success. The answer may surprise you. Before you waste a lot of time learning the answers to questions no one is asking, determine what the real world solutions and answers are that people are seeking. The most valuable commodity on the planet is knowledge, but only if it is the right knowledge.

As you go through your day today, seek input and wisdom that will bring you toward the right knowledge.

Today’s the day!

The single characteristic shared by more top executives
is the fact that they read or listen to positive,
motivational, affirming material on a regular basis.

Jim Stovall is the president of Narrative Television Network as well as a published author of many books including The Ultimate Gift. He is also a columnist and motivational speaker. He may be reached at 5840 South Memorial Drive, Suite 312, Tulsa, OK 74145-9082; by email at Jim@JimStovall.com; on Twitter at www.twitter.com/stovallauthor; or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jimstovallauthor.

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New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Gitomer brings you the very foundation of Napoleon Hill’s self-help legacy: his long-lost original notes, letters, and lectures—now compiled, edited, and annotated for the modern reader.

Twenty years before the publication of his magnum opus Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill was an instructor, philosopher, and writer at the George Washington Institute in Chicago, where he taught courses in advertising and sales. These rare, never-before-seen lectures were thought to be lost to history. Until now.

Given exclusive access to the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Jeffrey Gitomer has unearthed Hill’s original course notes containing the fundamental beliefs in hard work and personal development that established Hill as a global leader of success and positive attitude.

In Truthful Living, Gitomer has captured Hill’s foundational wisdom for the twenty-first century. These easy-to-implement real-world strategies for life, family, business, and the bottom line prove as energizing and inspiring today as they were nearly one hundred years ago.

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This edition of Napoleon Hill’s Classic Think and Grow Rich is a reproduction of Napoleon Hill’s personal copy of the first edition, the ONLY original version recommended by The Napoleon Hill Foundation, originally printed in March of 1937.

The most famous of all teachers of success spent a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort to produce the Law of Success philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized and explained for the general public in this book.

In Think and Grow Rich, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. This book will teach you the secrets that could bring you a fortune. It will show you not only what to do but how to do it. Once you learn and apply the simple, basic techniques revealed here, you will have mastered the secret of true and lasting success.

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A Beautifully Embossed Hardcover Collector’s Edition Containing the Original Text

The Master Key to Riches, a powerful formula for self-improvement, shows you how to harness the powers of your will and mind so that you can achieve mental happiness, business success, spiritual vitality and financial superiority.

Based on the Andrew Carnegie formula for money making, The Master Key to Riches describes in step-by-step detail the greatest practical philosophy of success. “Riches” means all riches—“not merely those represented by bank balances and material things,” says Napoleon Hill in the introduction to this master-manual for personal achievement.

This amazing philosophy, culled from the success experiences of many of the world’s most powerful and wealthy men, will show you how to succeed in any path of life, whether it be love, wealth, personal satisfaction, faith, or any number of other goals.

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Every person in the universe wants to hear YES! Every business and sales winner wants to hear one word: YES! Having and maintaining a YES! Attitude that’s powerful enough to help anyone achieve the impossible is possible. When you’ve got a YES! Attitude, you assume everything will start with YES! …and you’ll find a way to YES! even when the first, second, and third answer you hear is NO!

You say you weren’t born with a YES! Attitude? No problem! Jeffrey Gitomer will give you all the tools you need to build one and maintain it for a lifetime. As the world’s #1 expert in selling (and the author of the best-sellers Little Red Book of Selling and The Sales Bible), Gitomer knows more about attitude than anyone alive today. Now he’s brought those lessons together in a book you can read in one sitting… a book that’ll change your life!

What makes this book for you? It’s not just inspiration: it’s a complete, step-by-step, fully-integrated game plan for understanding and mastering your attitude. You’ll learn the 7.5 specific things you can do to maintain your intensity, drive, and commitment… discover 20.5 attitude gems that capture the value of thousands of dollars of books and courses… learn how to overcome the 10.5 most dangerous attitude busters … then learn how to maintain your YES! Attitude every day, for the rest of your life! Don’t just read this book once: study it, live it — and win.

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